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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Simon Vatche Chamlian <simon AT mpbtech DOT qc DOT ca>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:43:40 +0000
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Subject: Re: "localtime"  Function
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Simon Vatche Chamlian <simon AT mpbtech DOT qc DOT ca> wrote:

> On another subject, the reason I was trying to tackle this function is because "time_t" is declared as "long" 
>in the ANSI C library. Therefore, it's valid up until the year 2037. So I 
>would like to c> I was just wondering if anybody did the job already (I'm 
>feeling lazy)?

ANSI doesn't say how long is long ;-) so isn't limited to 2037 and in fact 
that's the reason because the function returns a time_t and not a long! You 
can't fix it right now because most OSs have this limitation, you'll be 
forced to wait until your OS becomes 64 bits and recompile.

As we are in the djgpp list and we work with DOS it won't happend, but I 
doubt we will still using DOS by 2030.

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